Am 22.12.2006 um 07:52 schrieb Martin Costabel: > Max Horn wrote: >> For some reasons I didn't update my Fink installation for some time. >> So today I run a "cvs up" in /sw/fink, then sudo fink list -o >> >> This resulted in the following error: >> >> Failed: Error performing percent expansion: unknown % expansion or > > I don't think running older versions of fink was ever guaranteed to > work.
I beg your pardon? It's an absolute requirement for being able to upgrade an existing Fink installation, and one of the reasons InfoN was introduced. > Any reason why you don't "fink selfupdate" instead of "cvs up", or > at least "fink update fink"? The result would have been the same. > Running "cvs up" has the additional drawback - even if your fink isn't > out of date - that if you do "fink list" afterwards you will be > greeted > by the anal warning "Your index is out of date, and fink has suddenly > developed a reticence to run itself through sudo, so it can't > update the > index, sorry. Please wait 2 minutes while I am sulking" or > something to > that effect. Well the first command I run after "cvs up" was "sudo fink list -o", so no problem there. What failed was updating the index; the very same would have been the case if I had run "fink selfupdate", which essentially also run "cvs up", "fink index", and then updates some select packages. Anyway, we discussed this on #fink last night, and it seems it'll require a new InfoN versions, and also a new fink release. Cheers, Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
